Can having an Iron-deficiency anemia cause me to have diabetes also?

You're lifestyle led you to have IDA and and you're bad lifestyle it can lead you to diabetes. So the bottom line is have a healthy lifestyle before it get worse.

They said you were anemic because it took so long to draw the blood, you might want to wait till the Doctor has the blood test results and ask him if you're anemic. The blood test will probably include a H1A1C test which will give the Doctor an idea as to whether or not you're diabetic so he'll probably tell you if you are diabetic but you can still ask if he doesn't. Quite often a slow blood draw will be that you're dehydrated or that they only partially hit the vein but didn't want to try and force it in for fear of losing the vein, you're probably a tough stick. Anemia won't cause diabetes. However when I was first hospitalized for hyperglycemia, they would test my glucose every four hours, it would max out the meter so they would have to draw blood for a lab test, this happened every four hours, at the end of the week my arms were black and blue and I was anemic from all the blood draws, they were also drawing arterial blood to watch my O2 levels as I'm a heart patient. Those arterial blood draws are painful. So you can have anemia because they're drawing too much blood from you to monitor diabetes.

Is Iron Deficiency Anemia a Chronic Cause of Diabetes? Some medical conditions and diseases are connected. One may precipitate another, as when coronary artery disease causes a heart attack. Sometimes one disease creates a situation in which another problem develops -- diabetes has a number of complications which develop over time, such as diabetic retinopathy or kidney disease. Iron Deficiency Anemia Iron deficiency anemia results when you don't have enough iron in your body. It results in anemia because iron is necessary for the body to produce hemoglobin, the part of the red blood cells which carry oxygen throughout the body. It is usually caused from not ingesting enough iron or from blood loss. Any slow, chronic blood loss, such as heavy menstrual periods, colorectal cancer or gastrointestinal bleeding can cause anemia. Some intestinal disorders such as celiac disease, can affect the body's ability to absorb iron and result in deficiency. Finally, pregnancy can result in a deficiency because there is an increased need for hemoglobin to support both mother and child. Diabetes Diabetes is a disease of glucose metabolism. In a healthy person, sugars and starches are broken down into glucose, which is used by the cells. Insulin is the primary mechanism the body uses to regulate blood glucose, and when insulin production is impaired, diabetes develops. The cells of the pancreas which normally produce insulin either produce less over a period of time or the body stops listening to the insulin signals -- called insulin resistance. This type of diabetes, called Type 2 diabetes, is the most common. The other type, Type 1, is the abrupt cessation of insulin production. Some of the risk factors for hypertension and diabetes are the same: obesity, having a family history, and African American ancestry. Native Hawaiians and other Pacific Islanders, Latinos, Native Americans, Asian Americans, and the elderly are also at higher risk of diabetes.